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Medicine

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Or Ms 250: شفاء المرض Shifāʼ al-marz̤, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 250
Scope and Contents

A compendium of medicine in verse, compiled, 990 A.H. (1582 C.E.) by Shihāb al- Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 251: شفاء المرض Shifāʼ al-marz̤, 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 251
Scope and Contents

A compendium of medicine in verse, compiled, 990 A.H. (1582 C.E.) by Shihāb al-Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm.


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says of the dating: "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)" and that the scribe is "Chanpā, son of Aithippā'. See Or Ms 257 for further discussion of this scribe.

Dates: 1133 A.H.; 1720 C.E.

Or Ms 252: فرهنگ طب Farhang-i Ṭibb, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 252
Scope and Contents

A treatise in prose on materia medica by Shihāb al- Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm. The names of simple medicinal substances are arranged in alphabetical order.


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says of the dating: "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)" and that the scribe is "Chanpā, son of Aithippā'. See Or Ms 257 for further discussion of this scribe.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 253: مجربات التداوی Mujarrabāt al-tadāwī, 1244 A.H., 1828 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 253
Scope and Contents

A work on compound medicaments by Ghulām Muṣṭafā Bihārī.


Frontispiece illuminated with gold. Features interlinear illumination.

Dates: 1244 A.H.; 1828 C.E.

Or Ms 254: نصيحت نامهٔ حکماء Naṣiḥat-nāmah-yi ḥukamāʼ, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 254
Scope and Contents

A few rules for health in verse, taken from ancient physicians, and containing a few hints as to the treatment of ordinary ailments, also in verse.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 255: قرابادین (طب قادری) Qarābādīn (Tibb-i Qādirī), 1219 A.H., 1804 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 255
Scope and Contents

An elaborate work on the compound medicaments for the human body, compiled, between 1126-1130 A.H. (1714-1718 C.E.), by a famous physician, Mīr Muḥammad Akbar, also called "Muḥammad Arzānī", who flourished during Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb's reign (1658-1707 C.E.), and was the son of Mīr Ḥājī Muqīm.


See Or Ms 256 for a further example of a work by this author.


Illuminated frontispiece.

Dates: 1219 A.H.; 1804 C.E.

Or Ms 256: مجرّبات اکبری Mujarrabāt-i Akbarī, 1128 A.H., 1715 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 256
Scope and Contents

An elaborate work on the compound medicaments for the human body, compiled between 1126-1130 A.H. (1714-1718 C.E.) by famous physician Mīr Muḥammad Akbar, also called "Muḥammad Arzānī", who flourished during Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb's reign (1658-1707 C.E.), and was the son of Mīr Ḥājī Muqīm.


See Or Ms 255 for a further example of a work by this author.

Dates: 1128 A.H.; 1715 C.E.

Or Ms 257: طب بحری وبری Ṭibb-i baḥrī-u barrī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 257
Scope and Contents A treatise on medicine, of which this is a holograph copy. It includes a short list of parts of the human body, drugs with their equivalents in Arabic and Hindi, and advice on the examination of patients, symptoms and treatment of a number of diseases, and pregnancy. The material for the work was derived principally from the Zakhīra-yi Khwārazmshāhī and Qarābādī (of Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ibrāhīm Isma‘īl b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī, who died 531 or 535 A.H. (1136-1137 or...
Dates: undated

Or Ms 258: طب نوری Ṭibb-i nūrī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 258
Scope and Contents

A treatise on medicine in verse, which, after a few folios, is continued on the margins of Or Ms 251 (with which it is bound).


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) Hukk et al. gives the dating as "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)".

Dates: undated